At our phase one consultation, we identified the need to connect the Shad Thames Pumping Station CSO, to the main tunnel. We proposed the use of St John’s playground fronting on to Druid Street for this construction work and to accommodate permanent structures required to operate the main tunnel. The location of our preferred site at phase one consultation, Druid Street, is shown below.
Since phase one consultation, further technical work has established that there is no longer a need to connect the Shad Thames Pumping Station CSO to the main tunnel. Instead it is proposed that storm flows are managed by utilising existing storage in the sewers upstream of the pumping station and implementing works at Shad Thames Pumping Station to inhibit it from pumping flows from the CSO into the River Thames.
After a storm, new pumps would be used to return stored sewage to the local sewerage system. In extreme storm events, the existing pumps in Shad Thames Pumping Station would be used to discharge storm flows to the River Thames. The site at Druid Street is therefore no longer required and works are instead proposed within the Shad Thames Pumping Station and Maguire Street.
The location of the Shad Thames Pumping Station is shown above. The site is accessed from Maguire Street to the east, Tamarind Court is to the south, Vanilla and Sesame Court is to the west and Wheat Wharf is to the north. The site is within the Tower Bridge Conservation Area. We own the existing pumping station site.
For more detailed information on our proposals for the Shad Thames Pumping Station site, please see our site information paper below:
